The study enrolled 110 nonvalvular persistent AF patients aged 18 to 80 years with left atrial diameters <50 mm, randomized to PVI alone or PVI plus roof line ablation. Patients were randomized 1:1 ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires children to remain still for extended periods, often necessitating sedation, which carries risks and raises costs. Non-pharmacologic strategies such as video ...

This randomized controlled trial included stroke patients discharged from hospitals in Khorramabad city in 2022. A total of 80 patients were selected using non-probability consecutive sampling and ...

Of the 2435 participants who commenced the study, a final sample of 1394 (57.25%) participants aged 14 to 29 years with complete data and sufficient durations of stay on the video pages were ...

Abstract: We present a practical approach to intercompare a range of candidate digital elevation models (DEMs) based on predefined criteria and a statistically sound ranking approach. The presented ...

Continuous sciatic popliteal nerve block effectively manages pain after ankle and foot surgery. Most studies on continuous infusion of local anesthetics by perineural catheters have been made with ...

Successful completion of chemotherapy is critical to improve breast cancer outcomes. Relative dose intensity (RDI), defined as the ratio of chemotherapy delivered to prescribed, is a measure of ...

Methods: A community sample of 198 adults (101 women, 95 men, and 2 gender-diverse individuals) was block-randomized by gender to complete a 15-minute self-disclosure conversation with a female ...

A closed-loop system of insulin delivery (also called an artificial pancreas) may improve glycemic outcomes in children with type 1 diabetes. A total of 101 children underwent randomization (78 to the ...

The ethical practice of research requires researchers to give reasons and justifications for their actions, both to the other members of their research team as well as to external audiences. We ...

ABSTRACT: Striga causes a serious threat to successful cultivation of sorghum in areas of low and erratic rainfall and poor soil fertility. Therefore, to reduce yield losses and severity of Striga, a ...